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Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research (2015)
Journal Article
Carter, C. J., Koene, A., Perez, E., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O'Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2016). Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research. Computers and Society, 45(3), https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874268

In this paper, we outline an online survey-based study seeking to understand academic attitudes towards social media research ethics (SMRE). As the exploratory phase of a wider research project, findings are discussed in relation to the responses of... Read More about Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research.

Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. (2015). Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck.

The avionics industry is seeking to understand the challenges and benefits of touchscreens on flight decks. This paper presents an investigation of interactive displays on the flight deck focusing on the impact of target size, placement and vibration... Read More about Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck.

Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Wu, F., Ramchurn, S. D., Jiang, W., Fischer, J. E., Rodden, T., & Jennings, N. R. (2015). Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (132-138)

We consider a setting where an agent-based planner instructs teams of human emergency responders to perform tasks in the real world. Due to uncertainty in the environment and the inability of the planner to consider all human preferences and all attr... Read More about Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response.

Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Koene, A., Adolphs, S., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., O'Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources. In Corpus Linguistics 2015: abstract book (204-206)

With the rising popularity of public and semi-public communication channels such as Blogs (late 1990s), Wikipedia (launched in 2001), Facebook (launched in 2004), Reddit (from 2005) and Twitter (from 2006), the Internet has become an increasingly fer... Read More about Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources.

HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ramchurn, S. D., Huynh, T. D., Ikuno, Y., Flann, J., Wu, F., Moreau, L., …Roberts, S. (2015). HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives. In AAMAS '15: Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (533-541)

This paper proposes a novel disaster management system called HAC-ER that addresses some of the challenges faced by emergency responders by enabling humans and agents, using state-of-the-art algorithms, to collaboratively plan and carry out tasks in... Read More about HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives.

Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Luger, E., Urquhart, L., Rodden, T., & Golembewski, M. (2015). Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process. In CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (457-466). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702142

© Copyright 2015 ACM. The regulatory climate is in a process of change. Design, having been implicated for some time, is now explicitly linked to law. This paper recognises the heightened role of designers in the regulation of ambient interactive tec... Read More about Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process.

Human–agent collaboration for disaster response (2015)
Journal Article
Ramchurn, S. D., Wu, F., Jiang, W., Fischer, J. E., Reece, S., Roberts, S., …Jennings, N. R. (2016). Human–agent collaboration for disaster response. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 30(1), 82-111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-015-9286-4

In the aftermath of major disasters, first responders are typically overwhelmed with large numbers of, spatially distributed, search and rescue tasks, each with their own requirements. Moreover, responders have to operate in highly uncertain and dyna... Read More about Human–agent collaboration for disaster response.

Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Koene, A., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research.

In this paper we argue for the position that responsible safeguards for privacy and ethical treatment of human data are of vital importance to retain the public confidence and trust that is necessary for the development and future success of internet... Read More about Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research.

House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks (2015)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Tolmie, P., Mortier, R., Lodge, T., Brundell, P., & Pantidi, N. (2015). House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-014-0771-6

We draw on ethnographic studies to understand the collaborative nature of network policies or rules in domestic settings. We outline the technical nature of network policy in enterprise domains and how this contrasts with the social or collaborative... Read More about House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks.

Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Fischer, J., Reeves, S., Rodden, T., Reece, S., Ramchurn, S., & Jones, D. (2015). Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response.

Command and control environments ranging from transport control rooms to disaster response have long been of interest to HCI and CSCW as rich sites of interactive technology use embedded in work practice. Drawing on our engagement with disaster respo... Read More about Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response.

Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Fischer, J. E., Costanza, E., Ramchurn, S. D., Colley, J. A., & Rodden, T. (2014). Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty.

We present an ethnographic study of energy advisors working for a charity that provides support, particularly to people in fuel poverty. Our fieldwork comprises detailed observations that reveal the collaborative, interactional work of energy advisor... Read More about Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty.

Supporting team coordination on the ground: requirements from a mixed reality game (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Fischer, J. E., Jiang, W., Kerne, A., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, S. D., Reece, S., …Rodden, T. (2014). Supporting team coordination on the ground: requirements from a mixed reality game.

We generate requirements for time-critical distributed team support relevant for domains such as disaster response. We present the Radiation Response Game to investigate socio-technical issues regarding team coordination. Field responders in this mix... Read More about Supporting team coordination on the ground: requirements from a mixed reality game.

Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management (2014)
Journal Article
Goulden, M., Bedwell, B., RODDEN, T., Rennick-Egglestone, S., & Spence, A. (2014). Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management. Energy Research and Social Science, 2, 21-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2014.04.008

Smart grids are a key feature of future energy scenarios, with the overarching goal of better aligning energy generation and demand. The work presented here considers the role of the user in such systems, and the contexts in which such roles might em... Read More about Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management.

Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Jiang, W., Fischer, J. E., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, S. D., Wu, F., Jennings, N. R., & Rodden, T. (2014). Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams.

We present a field trial of how instructions from an intelligent planning agent are dealt with by distributed human teams, in a time-critical task setting created through a mixed-reality game. We conduct interaction analysis to examine video recorded... Read More about Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams.

Doing the laundry with agents: a field trial of a future smart energy system in the home (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Costanza, E., Fischer, J. E., Colley, J., Rodden, T., Ramchurn, S. D., & Jennings, N. R. (2014). Doing the laundry with agents: a field trial of a future smart energy system in the home. In CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (813–822). https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557167

Future energy systems that rely on renewable energy may bring about a radical shift in how we use energy in our homes. We developed and prototyped a future scenario with highly variable, real-time electricity prices due to a grid that mainly relies o... Read More about Doing the laundry with agents: a field trial of a future smart energy system in the home.

Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Moran, S., Pantidi, N., Rodden, T., Chamberlain, A., Griffiths, C., Zilli, D., & Merrett, G. (2014). Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557022

Our natural environment is complex and sensitive, and is home to a number of species on the verge of extinction. Surveying is one approach to their preservation, and can be supported by technology. This paper presents the deployment of a smartphone-b... Read More about Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment.

Supporting group interactions in museum visiting (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Tolmie, P., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Rodden, T., & Reeves, S. (2014). Supporting group interactions in museum visiting.

Ethnographic study in two contrasting museums highlights a widespread but rarely documented challenge for CSCW design. Visitors' engagement with exhibits often ends prematurely due to the need to keep up with or attend to fellow group members. We unp... Read More about Supporting group interactions in museum visiting.

Variability of behaviour in electricity load profile clustering: who does things at the same time each day? (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Dent, I., Craig, T., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. (2014). Variability of behaviour in electricity load profile clustering: who does things at the same time each day?. In P. Perner (Ed.), Advances in data mining: applications and theoretical aspects: 14th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 16-20, 2014: proceedings (70–84). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08976-8_6

UK electricity market changes provide opportunities to alter households' electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall electricity network. Work on clustering similar households has concentrated on daily load profiles and the variability... Read More about Variability of behaviour in electricity load profile clustering: who does things at the same time each day?.